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Exploring Health Care Seeking Knowledge, Perceptions And Practices For Childhood Diarrhea And Pneumonia And Their Context In A Rural Pakistani Community, Wafa Aftab, Leah Shipton, Fauziah Rabbani, Kashif Sangrasi, Shagufta Perveen, Aysha Zahidie, Imran Naeem, Shamim Qazi
Exploring Health Care Seeking Knowledge, Perceptions And Practices For Childhood Diarrhea And Pneumonia And Their Context In A Rural Pakistani Community, Wafa Aftab, Leah Shipton, Fauziah Rabbani, Kashif Sangrasi, Shagufta Perveen, Aysha Zahidie, Imran Naeem, Shamim Qazi
Community Health Sciences
BACKGROUND:
Where access to facilities for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia is inadequate, community case management (CCM) is an effective way of improving access to care. In Pakistan, utilization of CCM for these diseases through the Lady Health Worker Program remains low. Challenges of access to facilities persist leading to delayed care and poor outcomes. Estimating caregiver knowledge, understanding their perceptions and practices, and recognizing how these are related to care seeking decisions about childhood diarrhea and pneumonia is crucial to bring about coherence between supply and demand-side practices.
METHODS:
Data was collected from family caregivers to explore their knowledge, perceptions …